NPR News: 09-10-2026 5PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, the Republican midterm convention in Dallas closes tonight with speeches from President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Last night, Trump promised to send $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen, but only if Republicans win the midterms. NPR's Tamara Keith has more on whether he can do that. He'd need Congress to pass it, and that would be a tough climb, even if Republicans were to maintain control of the House and the Senate, which is a big if given the current political climate. The Groundwork Collaborative and Economic Think Tank found 15 other instances of Trump promising to send some kind of payment or refund or dividend to Americans, just since he returned to office last year, and it still hasn't happened. And some quick math, the bill for this proposed dividend would be more than a trillion dollars, plus it's illegal to pay or be paid to influence voting. NPR's Tamara Keith reporting,

1:00following the attacks of 9-11, first responders and cleanup crews rushed toward the destruction, advocates say over 2,000 of them were immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. NPR's Jasmine Garst reports. Many immigrant workers have gotten workers comp and helped through the James DeDrogan 9-11 Health and Compensation Act, but advocates say many without legal status are too scared to apply. Lucelli asked that we withhold her last name for fear of deportation. She worked at Ground Zero, wearing a paper, mask, and rubber gloves. Amor Shem, El Polvedo, she. Since then, she's battled, breast cancer and asthma. The attack released hundreds of tons of toxic debris into the air. There have been more than 57,000 cancer cases related to exposure. The 9-11 immigrant worker freedom act would give Ground Zero workers a path to citizenship. It was introduced in 2017 and reintroduced in 2025, but remains stalled in Congress. Jasmine Garst and NPR News, New York.

2:01Macy's is counting on higher prices and more luxury items to boost its turnaround plan. The department's stores had been struggling to improve its finances for years, now reporting higher sales and a better forecast for the year as NPR's Alina Seljuk reports. This marks more than a year of growing sales at Macy's after a long stretch of questionable prospects. The department's store chain has been remodeling, upgrading its customer service, and the things it sells. And the Big Bet seems to be on luxury and premium brands, going after higher income shoppers who have continued to spend even with a tricky economic backdrop. Executive say Macy's is selling more upscale brands like Ralph Lauren, along with fine jewelry and watches. Its higher end chain, Bloomingdale's, is driving a lot of growth with sales up more than 11% in the latest quarter. Macy's is also getting over $100 million in tariff refunds and the company is putting that money toward its turnaround plan. Alina Seljuk and PR News. Major US stock index is sank today. This is NPR News. Jimmy Kimmel says an interview with Texas Democratic

3:03Senate candidate James Tallarica won't air on TV under pressure from the FCC. It'll now only air on YouTube. Stephen Colbert showed to the same thing in February. The FCC has been enforcing equal time rules for political candidates, which traditionally didn't apply to talk shows. Kimmel suggests the Trump administration influenced the change. Researchers say they found the most detailed feather from the age of dinosaurs inside a chunk of fossilized dinosaur feces. NPR's Aridaniel reports. The discovery was made in the rocky badlands of Montana. The feather, alongside other feathers and a couple bone pieces, likely came from an aquatic swimming bird living some 66 million years ago. This bird was one of many that went extinct alongside the dinosaurs, says Jingmei O'Connor, of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Only one group of birds survives when the asteroid impact happens. The group that gave rise to modern birds. But what allowed them to make it through

4:04the ensuing drop in global temperature? Perhaps they were better insulated, says O'Connor, based on her study of the newly found fossilized feathers. Other researchers dispute there's enough evidence. Aridaniel and PR News. Esau Haromoto, the baseball grade who survived the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb and still holds Japanese baseball's record for hits, has died. He was 86, nicknamed the Hit Machine. Harimoto is the only player in Japan to hit more than 3,000 hits. He was five when he survived the US Atomic Bombing in 1945. This is NPR News. This week on Consider This, the researcher who just resigned from anthropic, why he believes AI is a threat to humanity. Very soon, these things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue, it's not going to be good. Plus, his view of what guard rails could look like this week on Consider This from NPR.